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Well that's just fucking sad.
But perfectly in character for the police organizations of any given state that's any form of -ism, be it communism, capitalism, or whatever...
It guess for any form of government, they all want to stay in power once they get in which is why all leadership positions should have financial disclosures and be removed at most every 10 years.
While I don't necessarily agree with the first half of your sentence, as I believe it's more of an issue with human nature, than the form of government, I do agree with your conclusion. Full financial disclosure and term limits for all positions. It's going to incentivize some to be even more corrupt as the clock's ticking for enriching themselves, but I believe it's the best option for now.
That's my point, that's not a government failure thats a human failure we need to plan for and work around.
With the right form of government, though ;) I'd argue we would need to change the things you mentioned and then some, to keep politicians and lobbyists in check, but I also believe that under the -ism forms of society, this won't be possible. So we would need to try and transform into true democracies. Unfortunately, I fear in our current state of the world, the capitalism has advanced so far that those in power will not let us and we're not organized enough to start a rebellion world-wide. So far, it appears that the assholes are successful with "divide et impera" :(
Nah, ditch the lobbyists. Make election funds shared/publicly funded. If candidate A wants to spend $1m on an election, that money gets evenly distributed across all runners in the race.
There was a time in which it was thought impossible to shake off the tyranny of feudalism and monarchism.